Genovieve has spent over fifteen years inside primary and secondary mathematics classrooms — teaching children, coaching teachers, and rebuilding whole-school mathematics programs from Foundation to Year 10. She also spent seven years in universities, training the next generation of teachers.

She has written mathematics curriculum at state and national level. But those aren’t the accomplishments she counts. For Genovieve, reaching even one student is a great accomplishment — the moment a child lights up because an idea finally makes sense. Numbers only matter to her when they mean more children are actually learning. Her mission is to give the gift of understanding to all children — not just the privileged few.

She has sat beside hundreds of children at the exact moment mathematics stopped making sense to them. She has seen, up close, where the standard approach loses a child, and why more worksheets never bring them back. And she has seen something the system rarely admits: children don’t need years of repetition to understand a topic. Deep understanding comes early, and comes quickly, when a child is given the right tools and the right way to think.

That is why Linear Abacus exists. Built with Dr Andrew Waywood and grounded in his twenty years of mathematical research, everything in it — every activity, every conversation, every book — was built from what actually helps a child understand numbers, tested across years of real classrooms and homes.

Now she brings that knowledge to the place where it works best: one parent and one child, side by side, with the time, patience and love to explore.